Prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms in intensive care unit patients and rate of subsequent bacteraemia: a 5-year study.

Introduction: Multidrug-resistant organism (MRO) bacteraemia is associated with significant mortality. A limited number of studies have examined the relationship between MRO colonisation and subsequent bacteraemia in critically ill patients.

Material And Methods: All patients with a positive surveillance swab result and a positive blood culture result for MROs admitted to the Westmead intensive care unit (ICU) between 1 January 2014 and 31 March 2019 had their results matched with ICU data extracted from the ICU database and analysed for the risk of bacteraemia among swab positive patients.

Disability after encephalitis: development and validation of a new outcome score.

Objective: To develop a simple tool for assessing the severity of disability resulting from Japanese encephalitis and whether, as a result, a child is likely to be dependent.

Methods: A new outcome score based on a 15-item questionnaire was developed after a literature review, examination of current assessment tools, discussion with experts and a pilot study. The score was used to evaluate 100 children in Malaysia (56 Japanese encephalitis patients, 2 patients with encephalitis of unknown etiology and 42 controls) and 95 in India (36 Japanese encephalitis patients, 41 patients with encephalitis of unknown etiology and 18 controls).